Video: Roadster Shop and Covington Win Optima Batteries Street Machine of the Year in Columbus
Alex Covington and the Roadster Shop staff are still celebrating after winning the 2011 Optima Batteries Goodguys Street Machine of the Year competition in Columbus at the Goodguys PPG Nationals in...
Show Gallery: The Long Beach Swap Meet – July
Even though Toppings Events puts on the Long Beach Swap every month, it doesn’t deminish the amount of great cars and parts that show up. This past Sunday did not disappoint. Since our reporter...
Spectre Performance’s Brandy Morrow Wins Vendor Class Autocross at Goodguys in Columbus!
Our congratulations to Spectre Performance, and Marketing Representative Brandy Morrow, for her win at this weekends Goodguys PPG Nationals Autocross event. Columbus is the Goodguys biggest event of...
Quick Peek: A New ’67 Shelby GT 500 Mustang Doorslammer Body From Cynergy Composites
Our pal and BangShift reader Stu Wotypka is the talented guy behind many of the race car renderings you see popping up on the internet from time to time. His business, ID Motorsport Design...
Bitchin’ Gallery: Small and Medium Bore Sports Cars at the 2011 SOVREN Historics
As we continue our photographic review of the 2011 SOVREN Historic road races, Nathan McGrew has delivered another awesome gallery. This one focuses on small and medium bore sports cars. In these...
Gallery: Chryslers at Carlisle
BangShift contributing photographer Joe Grippo bleeds Ford blue, but he’s also got a few Ma Mopar cells in his bloodstream as well because his best girl races an awesome 1965 Coronet. Joe hit...
What if They Threw a NASCAR Race and Everyone Came? Also – Racing Promoters Are Vultures
One problem the folks at the NHRA didn’t have last Sunday at Joliet was traffic control. That’s usually the case when most of the stands are bare aluminum. The NASCAR folks, however, were...
Gallery: More Bitchin’ Historic Road Racing Photos! Trans-Am, A-Sedan, and Big Bore Sports Cars!
Nathan McGrew delivered us another awesome batch of photos from the SOVREN Historics at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Washington. This time it is the awesome big bore sports car group featuring stuff...
Bang Shift Brian Announcing Mopar Nitro Jam Nationals in Canada This Weekend!
Shockingly, Lohnes is not banned from entering Canada. Due to this loophole, he’ll be up in the Great White North this weekend announcing the IHRA Nitro Jam event at the Grand Bend Motorplex in...
Racing Junk Find: A Complete Kart Racing Operation
Recently, a discussion popped up in our forum section about getting into road racing. Lots of great suggestions came up like SCCA IT classes, autocrossing, and taking a street car to open track days....
Killer Cruise Gallery: The Morris Illinois Cruise – July 2011
There’s not much cooler than a nice summer night, hundreds of hot cars, and a neat old American city center. All those elements are present and accounted for at the Morris, Illinois Cruise and...
Creepy Video: A Demo Derby Goes Wrong and A Mondo Speaker is Launched Into the Crowd
The demolition derby is an American institution. We have a carnal fascination with car wrecks, so the idea of packaging them up in a pen and having a couple hundred of them at once appeals to people...
Caption this Photo: One Big Ass Truck Bounce
The “Big Power Meet” is a massive car show held in Sweden every year. Event organizers claim that it is the biggest American car show in the world and with nearly 20,000 cars showing up,...
Drag Gallery: Grudge Night at Houston Motorsports Park
Charles Wickam is no stranger to the wall at Houston Motorsports Park. He’s been at the well known eighth mile track for some truly wild action over the last couple seasons. He recently dropped...
